I should have a banner crop of butternut squash, cukes, maters and bell peppers....(watermelons and cantaloupes are starting to come along as well). If you need anything, let me know and I'll deliver....

I have two vegetable gardens. The tomato garden has 16 plants and 8 varieties. There is also cilantro, dill, carrots, radishes and squash in the same garden. The other garden has 16 pepper plants with 6 varieties. It also has snow peas, lettuce, green beans, spinach and horseradish. We have free range chickens so we have both vegetable gardens fenced in. I shovel out the hen house in the fall and use it for fertilizer on the pepper garden. We bed the hen house with straw in the winter and I shovel that out in the spring and spread the straw around the tomato plants. Then I'll dig that under in the fall.

For fertilizer, I rinse out the filters from the koi pond every week and spread the muck where I need it. We also have cherry bushes, a peach tree, quince, gooseberry and jostaberry. For herbs, we grow basil, thyme, chives, dill, and sage. We also have containers where we grow strawberries, Meyer lemons, a pineapple plant and cucumbers as well as cherry tomatoes. The entire garden is organic. The chickens help with insect control as well. They have wiped out the Japanese beatles that were a problem for a few years. We usually have a half dozen bird feeders which help attract birds who in turn eliminate a lot of insects.

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Saving Squash: I prefer yellow squash, fried, but they suck after being frozen, but had a neighbor turn me on this:

Slice, dip in egg, cover with cornmeal, season, put on wax paper on a cookie sheet and put in freezer. Once they're frozen, put into gallon ziplocks or break out into single serving bags. Works pretty good, they don't get all mushy. I'm ass deep in squash now, so saving a bunch this way for winter.

Saving Squash: I prefer yellow squash, fried, but they suck after being frozen, but had a neighbor turn me on this:

Slice, dip in egg, cover with cornmeal, season, put on wax paper on a cookie sheet and put in freezer. Once they're frozen, put into gallon ziplocks or break out into single serving bags. Works pretty good, they don't get all mushy. I'm ass deep in squash now, so saving a bunch this way for winter.

Ha, the site where the old two hole shitter sat is behind the picture. Had one when I bought it, no kidding. Had an old falling down farmhouse that sat about where the greenhouse is now. Had a two hole shitter than your knee would have been touching your wifes knee if you both went in there.

Got the garden plowed yesterday. Will disc as soon as it dries a bit. You can see the blueberry bushes budding and my wife's greenhouse in the background.

Nice!

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